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M. PARIDON. METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR ASSEMBLING MATCHES.

Patented J 11116 3, 1919.

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APPLICATION FILED OCT- 3, 1918.

M. PAHIDON. METHOD OF AND'MEANS FOR ASSEMBLING MATCHES.

APPLICATION FILED OCT 3. X918- 1,305,561 Patented June 3, 1919.

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MICHAEL PARIDON, 0F BARBERTON, OHIO, ASSIGNOR TO THE DIAMOND MATCH COMPANY, OF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS, A CORPORATION OF ILLINOIS.

METHOD OF AND MEANS FOR ASSEMBLING MATCHES.

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Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 3, 1919.

Application filed October 3, 1918. Serial No. 256,718.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, MICHAEL PARmoN, a citizen of the United States, and resident of the city of Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Methods of and Means for Assembling Matches, of which the following is a specification.

This invention concerns a method of and means for assembling matches in superposed layers with the heads of the matches of adjacent layers in opposite relation to each other, in order to insure the orderly packing of the matches in box trays or other receptacles; the invention being applicable to match machines wherein the matches are discharged row by row into a receiving trough and fed therealong to a suitable location for manual or mechanical introduction into commercial match boxes, and also to machines wherein the matches are similarly discharged into a succession of boxes progressing below the path of the falling matches.

According to the principle of my invention a predetermined series of each row of falling matches are intercepted and caused to make a half-turn in the air preparatory to delivery to the receiver, the heads of such series thus occupying, when delivered, a head-reversed position with respect to the re maining matches delivered to said receiver.

In the form of embodiment of my invention herein illustrated I arrange in operative relation to the path of descent of a predetermined series of each succeeding row of matches discharged from the match carrier, a stationary element constituting a barrier against which the heads of such series of matches impinge with sutlicient force to cause the matches bodily to rebounda half turn in the air, and thus occupy, when they enter the underlying receiver, a head-reversed position with respect to the remaining matches delivered through the unobstructed area to the receiver, all as will be hereinafter fully described. The scope of the invention will be defined in the appended claims.

In the drawings- Figure 1 is an elevation, partly in section, of the discharge portion of a match machine equipped with match assembling means embodying my invention.

Fig. 2 is a partial transverse vertical section, enlarged, as on the line 2--2 of Fig. 1,

indicating the efiect of the splint-turning feature.

Figs. 3 and a illustrate my invention as embodied in two slightly different types of machines wherein the matches are delivered directly to the commercial boxes.

Referring to the drawings, 10 designates a portion of the supporting framework of a typical match machine; 11 a portion of an endless match carrier composed of plates having parallel rows of perforations in which the undipped ends of the match splints are held; 12 a reciprocating head carrying a row of punches for ejecting the matches row by row, heads outward, from the carrier; and 13 a driven shaft of the machine.

1 1 designates a horizontal trough supported at and transversely of the discharging end of the match machine on a plane somewhat below the path of discharge of the matches from the carrier plates, which trough in the form shown is designed to receive the falling matches, row by row, when they are freed from the carrier. This trough is slidingly supported upon guide blocks 15 rising from a bed 16, and is given a longitudinal reciprocating or jarring motion in any suitable manner in order to agitate the contained matches and cause them to settle compactly within the trough. The trough is provided with a yielding spring bottom plate 17, and also along its side walls with parallel uide flanges 18.

Extending through the trough, with the guide flanges 18, is the horizontal run of an endless chain conveyer 19, which is provided with regularly spaced transverse blades 20, the distance between adjacent blades being less than the length of a match. This conveyor passes about curved guide pieces 21 at the respective ends of the trough; and also about a pair of suitably supported overlying guide wheels 22, one of which latter is appropriately geared with, and con tinuously driven from the shaft 13. The traveling conveyer with its blades progressively enters and passes along the trough, thereby insuring the orderly disposition of the matches transversely of the trough and conveying them, in substantial parallelism, to the discharging end of the latter. The mechanism just indicated being of known construction-and operation requires no detailed description herein.

In pursuance of my invention, and as an cxemplification of its principle, I provide the inner side of the outer wall of the trough with a horizontal ledge or barrier 23 which is positioned about midway between the horizontal run of the conveyer and the path of discharge of the matches from the carrier. In the present instance this ledge or barrier is constituted by the horizontal member of a bar of angle iron which is affixed to the wall of the trough by bolts 24 and nuts 25; the bolt holes in the wall being elongated to permit limited vertical adjustment of the bar in respect to the plane of discharge of the matches, as occasion may require. The length of the ledge 23 is preferably about one-half the width of the carrier and it is also preferably arranged directly opposite the right-hand portion of the carrier, as viewed in Fig. 1. The free longitudinal edge of the ledge extends into the path of the heads of the descending matches which have been discharged from the adjacent portion of the carrier, which heads in their initial descent thus impinge against the 0pposed ledge with suflicient force to cause the matches bodily to rebound a half turn in the air preparatory to their entering the lower part of the trough, as indicated in Fig. 2. The heads of the matches, thus delivered to the trough, lie adjacent the inner wall of the latter. .The matches discharged from the left-hand portion of the carrier fall directly into the trough and hence their heads lie adjacent the outer wall of the trough. In other words the matches delivered from the respective longitudinal divisions of the carrier, as. prescribed by the length and position of the ledge 23, are deposited in the troughwith their heads in opposite relation to each other.

The relative speeds of the conveyer, the match carrier, and the discharge mechanism are such that in the travel of a given receiving portion of the conveyer from the right to and beyond the left hand edge of the match carrier, such portion progressively receives the matches, to a uniform level, in superposed rows; and since the ledge 23 is effective only upon the series of each row of matches discharged from the first half of the carrier, it follows that as the receiving portions of the conveyor with their contents progress beyond the second half of the carrier such portionseach contain two equal superposed layers of matches whereof the heads of the lower layer are in opposite relation to those of the upper layer. The trough isv represented as provided at its discharging end with an extension 26 into which the assembled matches are delivered by the traveling conveycr, such extension thence conducting the matches to any usual or approved box filling mechanism.

In Fig. 3 I have shown my invention as embodied in a match packing machine wherein the blade conveyor 20 is used for partitioning and impelling commercial match boxes 27 along the trough; and in Fig. 4 I have shown the invention as adapted to a match packing machine wherein individual boxes 27 are supported between and carried by the upstanding blades or jaws of an endless conveyer which is mounted to travel within and longitudinally of the trough. It is evident that in each of the modified constructions just referred to my invention insures the delivery of the matches from the match carrier to each succeeding box, or receiver, in two superposed layers, with the match heads of the respective layers pointing in opposite directions to each other.

I claim 7 i 1. A method of assembling matches in superposed layers with the heads of the matches of adjacent layers in opposite relation to each other, comprising advancing the matches row by row to a horizontal plane; discharging the succeeding rows of matches at said plane; permitting themto fall into a receiver traveling below their path of descent; and causing a series of each row of falling matches to make a half-turn in the air preparatory to their delivery to the receiver.

2. A step in the method of assembling rows of falling matches Within a receiver, which consists in abruptly checking the descent of the heads of' a series of matches of each row and thus causing the individual matches of each such series to rebound and make a half-turn in the air.

3. The combination with a source of match supply including means for discharging succeeding rows of matches therefrom with their heads pointing in the same direction, of means for receiving the falling matches and advancing them progressively across their path of descent, and an element within the path of a series of each succeeding row of falling matches presenting thereto a barrier which causes the impinging matchesto make a half-turn in the air preparatory to their delivery to the said receiving and advancing means. 7

4. The combination with a source of match supply including means tor discharging succeeding rows of matches therefrom with their heads pointing in the same direction of an element arranged below the plane of discharge of the matches and in the path of the heads of a series of each discharged row of matches, whereby such heads impinge against said element and thus cause the series of matches to make a half-turn in the air, and means below said element for receiving the succeeding rows of matches dis charged from the source of supply.

5-. The combination with a carrier for'roWs of matches, means for discharging succeeding rows of matches from the carrier, a trough below the path of the falling matches, and means for progressively feeding along the trough the matches delivered thereto, of a ledge of less length than the Width of the carrier positioned to extend into the path of the heads of the falling; matches, whereby corresponding serles of succeeding rows of matches impinge against said ledge and are caused to make a half-turn in the air prepa- 10 ratory to their delivery to the trough.

Signed at Barberton, in the county of Summit and State of Ohio, this 27th day of September, A. D. 1918.

MICHAEL PARIDON.

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